Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winthrop House is the first House to top its quota for the Harvard Service Fund Drive, Thayer Drake '44, chairman of the drive for Winthrop revealed last night. A total of $1300 has been collected there, including money paid at registration...
...first Crimson eleven, halfbacks Bill Butcher and Ward Slingerland, and inside forward Thayer Drake will be missing due to leg injuries...
George M. Burditt, Jr., John D. Eusden, and E. Thayer Drake, 3rd, have been elected to the posts of first, second, and third marshals for the Class of 1944, tabulation of the results of two days' voting revealed last night...
Working in a 10-by-12 ft. office, Lights' President Thayer Thorndike faces a big Navy E flag which will be formally presented to the company on Nov. 18. One reason for the award: Lights, Inc. delivers on time. Besides lighting equipment (75% of its total) the company makes "stuffing tubes" (which hold cables on ships), bomb release pulleys, etc., and is planning to subcontract the manufacture of Butex, a synthetic rubber compound...
Related to two old Boston families (Thayer and Thorndike), the young president served a turn with First National Bank of Boston and with Boston Skyways. On a trip to Los Angeles he bought the bankrupt plant of Kay Bee Manufacturing Co., a motorcycle-light manufacturer, began making aviation lighting equipment. Lights, Inc., formed in 1932, supplied Pan American with field equipment, zoomed in 1940 when the Government ordered $1,400,000 worth of portable lights...